Alabama
Alabama's second nitrogen gas execution follows what critics call an "insistence on secrecy" by corrections officials
Alabama will execute a death row inmate Thursday with nitrogen gas, a controversial and highly secretive procedure that has only been done one other time.
Toward the end of June 2018, condemned inmates at Holman Correctional Facility in southern Alabama received slips of paper that gave them the choice to decide how they would prefer to die. There were two options: lethal injection, the default method,... [11584 chars]